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Data Analysis and Visualisation for Storytelling

Monday 20 February, 2017 - 13:14

Code for South Africa

Code for South Africa is a non-profit civic technology lab. We use data and technology to promote informed decision-making that drives social change. Our base of operations is Codebridge in Cape Town where we are helping to create a civic technology movement.

Code for South Africa is facilitating a two-day training course in March on data analysis and visualisation for storytelling, with budget data as the theme.

The course will consist of a combination of theoretical and hands-on practical work, and provide you with the opportunity to gain practical data analysis and visualisation skill-sets and equip you to deliver compelling data-driven multimedia stories.

This course is aimed at candidates who:

Are intimidated by working with data in excel

Want to learn simple best practices for shaping and analysing data

Would like to find valuable insights and stories hidden in their data

Want to present data in exciting ways across different platforms

Want to use data to inform and improve decision making processes

You will learn how to:

Access datasets, including national budget data

Manipulate and structure spreadsheets

Drill down into national budget spending from overall budget allocations to allocations within different programmes

Analyse sources of national budget revenue

Find stories within the data

Visualise data using free online tools

Embed visualisations into stories

Create multimedia stories using free online tools

These learnings will equip you to report on the local budget data when it is tabled in March.

Date: 06 March 2017 to 07 March 2017
Venue: Codebridge, Claremont, Cape Town
Cost: R4,600 per participant for the days (limited number of subsidised seats avail.)